rations

Example Sentences

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It’s not a real cellar—no shelves for preserves or rations for nuclear fallout—just a temporary safety pod.

From Literature

But still the hunted people kept coming, and the needs were often more complicated than rations cards and addresses.

From Literature

Motorists are also now required to register for a National Fuel Pass which rations the amount of fuel that people can buy.

From BBC

We could survive on short rations—or on none at all—for weeks if we had to.

From Literature

Despite the fact that, beyond the sunshine, fighter planes made their way across the sky, and people had lost their homes, and we were living on rations and our streets were patrolled by soldiers.

From Literature